The ‘93 version is just 90s random nonsense and I can’t help but love it.

In regards to the Power Glove. In my game room, I have a lamp that was custom made for me of a Power Glove holding a copy of The Wizard. "Its so bad."

Thank you for the tangent about voice actors. Billy West is an absolute legend & has made me laugh more than any other performer!

That thousand yard stare when Mark says "I've seen things."

I really want to see Mark do a full rundown of the '93 Mario Bros. movie now...

Raul Julia's performance of M Bison is a gift from God and I will not hear it disparaged, Mark

If you want to be sad, look up the actor who played Lucas in The Wizard and see what he's known for today. He really should have kept that Power Glove to himself.

I loved the ridiculous and bonkers OG Mario movie. No one would ever take a chance like that again and that makes it special in its own crazy way.

I definitely agree on the whole voice acting rant! As a fan of Japanese anime, YOU HAVE TO PICK THE RIGHT AND PERFECT VOICE TO SUIT THE CHARCTER! Don't pick a celerity just because they're "famous." It's all about vocal delivery. Not the person themselves.

I loved it…fun and corny😂 And I think Jack Black KILLED IT as Bowser😂

I love seeing different films through your perspective Mark. I appreciate your critiques and opinions. Let's get Mark to a million subs let's goooo

I was one of those Sega Kids back in the days and even I was hyped for that Movie. Just because it was based of a Video Game. It felt like my favourite hobby would go to the next level.

I love your delivery in your videos. The Overwerk tracks you play at the end are sick too.

There's probably someone out there who saw the old Mario Bros movie blind, without ever seeing the game somehow, and loved it. Then when they went to go play the game, they were pissed that it was nothing like the movie.

Hey there Mark. Love your videos and all the effort you put into making them. Keep it up, man!

Roland Joffe was one of the most acclaimed director with The killing field and The mission (Palme d’or at the Cannes festival). He must have been on drugs to proceed with such a doom project. His name was mud after that. It shows how fast you can go downhill-wood

Peter Weller is an actor that worked incredibly well when he voiced Batman in The Dark Knight Returns movie. That movie is also extremely bad ass.

I was kinda worried about your take on this movie because i genuinely enjoyed it for the same “better than my low expectations” reason that you did. But you actually broke this review down and nailed so many things I didn’t notice, like Seth Rogan’s phoned in performance compared to far more talented voice actors. This is why I religiously watch this channel.

I exactly have the same opinion of this movie as Mark: not groundbreaking, but delivered on expectations, no matter as a NES era fan or modern one. The biggest repproach I'd have is how Illumination mostly used Magikoopa as comic relief and then kind of forgot about him along the way and how they got Luigi jailed in Bowser's fortress early on, not really giving him time to develop his character from pushover to badass. But it was an engaging watch in the action department, for sure.

Excellent video! Personally, I was an Atari 64 abuser, who never played Mario Bro's, never watched the original Mario's movie, and has no intention of seeing the latest, and I can only say thanks for the really interesting look into the intersection of movies and gaming back in the lost innocence of the '80's and 90's!

we saw this in the theater. it was packed. we had to sit right in front of the screen but we didn't mind because it was really fun. the whole theater was loving the movie! so glad we saw it in theaters! see it there if you still can. bowser really was great... I had the peaches song stuck in my head for weeks! LOL

We missssssss you mark. Do more movies !!!! Please

I grew up with cartoons with Arnold Stang as Top Cat, etc. And, while many actors do good voice acting, I miss the special touches only voice actors I feel have extra nuance

“Like being directed by Chip n’ Dale” 🤣🤣🤣

I love the original SMB movie, just how notorious it has become over the years. The stories behind it's production are absolutely legendary in the annals of modern media. Honestly, if i could make any movie, I'd make a mockumentary about the making of the original Super Mario Bros movie. Cast stand-ins for all the players involved, and interlace interviews with actual stars and staff, esp. John Leguizamo, since both Hopkins and Hopper are no longer with us.

This is one of the most underrated KZfaq channels of all time.... This channel deserves to be a lot more popular than it is

It’s insane to think that Nintendo, a company thats known to jealously guard its most important IP, would be so hands off and lackadaisical about its first film. Just mind blowing.

haven't seen you in a long time. welcome back!

Great video, as always! My favorite part is when they get arrested. "Name." "Mario" "Last name!" "Mario!" "OK, what's your name?" "Luigi." "Luigi, Luigi?" "No, Luigi Mario."

The new Mario Movie wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece by general movie standards. But one thing I believe every critic of the Mario Movie completely misses is, “Did the movie understand the assignment?” The Mario Movie was a full on celebration of Mario and some of Nintendo’s earliest IPs, as well as having just the plot needed to make a movie out of. It also helped that they kind of gamified the Easter eggs in the movie as well. So a videogame movie breaking out the mold of trying to just be some blockbuster movie to compare to Citizen Cain or something, they made a videogame movie that was completely not only afraid to BE the videogame, but also was a game in itself. Taking the wide genre, it’s inspired from, into the Theatre. The audience for Mario wanted to see Platforming. They wanted to see familiar block behavior when the characters interact with them. Laugh at the self-inflection about “why am I so familiar with what is going on there, and yeah, those floating bricks would seem weird?” It understood the assignment. It used the familiarity of the audience, for the Wild wacky and weird they’ve grown comfortable with, and shined a mirror on it to make the audience smile. Not only at the movie, but at themselves. I think it took advantage of timing, and that the majority of the audience now plays videogames, compared to the past. And the adults who waited like 30+ years for the movie they wanted, as a kid, to finally come out. Yeah. A movie can be great in itself and be successful, it can also be one that truly understands the assignment and be successful. I think we all need to answer the question, one which I would love people to try to discuss and come up with an answer. What do you think the people at large want from a videogame movie? Particularly from videogames that don’t try to be movie-like in the first place? Ones that, in their source material, simply go wacky for the pure sense of wonder and fun, building their world or universe off it?

Billy west didn't voice Invader Zim. That was Richard Horvitz whom also voiced Daggett in The Angry Beavers.

Hey Mark, love your channel, and all the work you do to make your vids great! Especially the bits where are you? Green screen yourself into the movies 😂 keep up the great work, and know you are appreciated by many!

Proud Patreon. Love the new vid Mark. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for recognizing voice actors! Also I want to know who was playing Street Fighter and saw Bison and thought, "This guy reminds me of Gomez Addams."

14:05 If you don't got Mojo Nixon then your movie could use some fixin’.

I legitimately like the 1993 film. As an adaptation of the game its poor but as a wacky post apocalyptic family it's pretty entertaining.

I still love that old Mario movie. That's a peace of my childhood right there.

I think the movie was excellent as a "kids with parents who grew up on Mario" movie. In that aspect, it nailed it.

1993? In the line of fire,son in law, fire in the sky,perfect world, so two Eastwood film's. And freaked with Keanu. And probably a bunch more I don't have in my collection of movies! But I didn't see this until a few years later. It wasn't on anybody's radar in grade school. Feel like there was a Jim Carey flick around that time too?

Thank you, Brotha 💯 I was waiting anxiously 😂 I’m glad you’re well 😎

Ah, The Wizard. One of the cinema greats. Jenny Lewis screaming "He touched my breasts!" was just defining hilarity. Thanks, 80s/90s, and your weird outlook on everything always.

Not a movie I would watch, but I like that it treated the source material with respect.

Mark, this was an unprecedented surprise. Thank you for your thoughts on this, and look forward to your videos in the future. Also, I’d totally watch a movie with Mark, Kung Pow style lol

Great job, Mark Love your work!

As a child of the 90s, I can attest your Nam flashback of those video game movies is legit.

Love your stuff, man. I originally found your Halloween Ends video and I was like "Yeah, this guy definitely knows his stuff". Great content, keep up the great work.

Remember when Hollywood used to hire voice actors that could sing and do multiple characters 😢

billy west on Howard Stern is amazing

'Heeey guys welcome back TO the show' gives me a strange happy feeling that I can't explain 😌

Excellent video, perfect contrast!

Great video man! I love this comparison style video

I remember watching the ‘93 movie as a kid and thinking that it was just a coincidence that the main characters were brothers named Mario and Luigi, it was so weird I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be based on the game

I watched the Mario Bros (1993) in the cinema when I was 12… I vividly remember thinking “What the hell was that?”

As a real 80s kid super Mario was part of my soul and I loved the games. When I saw this film it baffled me that it was connected to the games. But I still loved it. It’s great. The new film was good, but I might as well played a Mario game instead.

I saw the old mario movie once back in the day (as a young kid), and had no idea what was going on. Never bothered to sit and watch it again, but I recall being so lost and confused and wondering why mario wasn't in it.

So glad youre back. Missed you the last few weeks

Maurice LaMarche is my all-time fav voice over actor. I think, these days, many voice actors are starting to break out in the public eye more. I'm a fan of Critical Role too, and that turned me on to a whole new generation of people I didn't know I was listening to for years.

woahhhh! we need a movie version of Golden Axe, Golgo 13, Rolling Thunder, and Boogerman!

Missed you Mark. Great as always

Ah David Snyder! I got to work with him on a music video for Halestorm 10 years ago. I asked him about THE SOLDIER and if he was aware that the trucks he designed were the largest moving props ever made at the time. He was not aware of that but very happy at the “nice surprise” that he’d actually set a record for anything.

I've heard a lot of people mention that they didn't like Rogan's Donkey Kong but I thought he was great. The only voice that didn't work for me was Anya Taylor Joy as Peach. I agree that the movie was mostly just checking the boxes for game references but it was done in a way that made it very entertaining.

I saw the original SMB movie when it hit theaters and holy cow did that movie spoil any chances for enjoyment, it was constant annoyance about how almost any of it could possibly relate to the game characters. There were little bits here and there, but it really showed how confused everything was, just baffling. It's also one of the reasons I haven't seen the 2023 version, the 1993 version was really that bad that it spoiled any future movies, regardless of whether they're any good.

Funny enough, they were in talks for magnum don himself Danny DeVito to play Mario and Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Bowser aka King Koopa in the film originally. That would’ve knocked my socks and I would’ve died laughing if that became reality. I would’ve given 4 stars hands down just for that casting.

Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo were basically drunk on set all the the time just to get through it 😂😂😂

Love the video, good job.

When you showed that horrific flashback of movie’s past I felt that!!😂😂😂😂

Oh come on Mark, those early 90s game adaptation films were gold, epic cheese, over the top terrible performances they are truly amazing in all the worst ways.

Voice actors like Tara Strong, Tabitha St. Germain and others should never be replaced, they are Legends.

It is sad that star power did not save the 1993 film from failure. Dennis Hopper, Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis and Fisher Stevens were all excellent and well known actors at the time. 🙃

I’m proud to say that I am an O.G. “Original Gamer” I started with Atari as a kid and moved through just about every system as I grew up. Nintendo, Super Nintendo, sega genesis, sega CD, Atari jaguar, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Xbox, back to PlayStation, and prolly one or two more systems I forgot. Now I’m sitting here waiting for AC mirage to come out.

My son pointed to a picture of Tom Kenny and said "SpongeBob" I have watched SpongeBob longer than him and had no idea who he was😂

I'm with you man. I lived through the dark times too. I still have Vietnam style flash backs about Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Double Dragon.

The little blue star guy is the definition of adult hood 😂

About the casting of movie stars vs voice actors, two simple solutions: - Cynical for cynical, if movie studios want to have famous movie stars do the promotion, just pay them to do the promotion and keep them out of the movie (OK, maybe just give them small roles). - Valorise the voice actors. Put something like "with legendary voice actor Nancy Cartwright", make them do the promotion of the movie (and don't tell me that an interview with a voice actor who can make the voices of multiple famous characters on camera is less interesting than having Chris Pratt regurgitating promotional talking points.

I worked in the gaming industry and one of the hardest parts is trying to secure an IP to develop a game. It is interesting to see the reverse; when the gaming giant is the owner of the IP and another industry wants to work with it. On a completely different note, I think I saw the Mario movie back in the 90s but I cannot remember well. I do remember Street Fighter and that was such a mess. It made me so annoyed 😂 that I remember.

Honestly the funny thing about the PowerGlove, is that we do all have it's decendants in our homes. Motion controls, something we expect to come standard from Nintendo on all their consoles/handhelds since the Wii. The Joycon is the modern powerglove, you just use two of them. Also, this video is so good. I love all the research you did for it.

a lot of info about this I didnt have a clue about. And I´m 44 I thought I new everything about this. Very good episode mark. :)

Honestly, the Resident evil movies, criminally underrated!

I remember this movie well from back in the day and just being confused that Dennis Hopper was Bowser and not looking like a turtle and being terrified of the koopa de-evolution scene.

Why is this the first video I’ve seen from you in months? I have my notifications on.

If I was only aloud to give one problem with the 1993 film, even as difficult as that may sound, I could do it. The one biggest problem with it is that it does not know or show where it goes. It looks like an adult film but does not go there. It is expected to be a kids’ film but does not go there. It is advertised as a video game film but goes way far away from that. It is introduced as a dinosaur story but is humanoid. Many think that Nintendo endorsed it. Well, they kinda just said, “Whatever. We won’t help or even care.” There you have it. The 1993 film was unique because it was built to be entertaining with no destination whatsoever. 😉

The '93 movie wouldn't have been as entertaining as it still is if it didn't have Dennis Hopper constantly chewing the scenery. Makes a hilarious contrast with Hoskins and Leguizamo mostly playing it straight.

I never played _any_ of the Mario games and have absolutely no idea what the franchise is like, but I watched the 90s movie about a billion times as a kid for some reason, so whenever someone mentions Super Mario, my mind conjures up the mustachioed face of Bob Hoskins.

Dont be dissin' da powerglove! Best invention in human history!

Companies dont understand that with game characters like Mario and Sonic we want *animation not live action* and usually a *direct transfer from one of the game stories not new one*. It works wonders and will work perfectly and dominate the box office. *Yes i wanna basically re-watch an entire video game ive played as an hd animated movie*

That last joke hit hard as I'm turning 46 today

when i saw the first one, i knew it was broken but, it was like a car wreck i couldnt look away.. all in all the first movie gave me good memories

Nice catch up Mark, you got oldies on your audience too. I turned 40 last 5th September, and I remember very clearly how the live action series did it 1000 times better than the Mario Bros. movies. I liked how the new movie made it clear about the warp to mushroom kingdom, I was honestly afraid Nintendo would just do some boring stuff, but they respected the 80s (everything from the 80s was about landing somewhere else and finding a way home)

Can’t they just insert big stars to do cameos and use voice actors to star? I could see Tom Hanks appearing on late night talk shows with the gimmick, “I had a brief time to play an incredible character. Dolly Parton, too.” Etc. I know, they made their billions so their formula works.(Not necessarily artistically)

Gotta say, dude; your earlier review of the '93 movie was funnier. But, that being said; I'd LOVE to see you do a few of those other stinkers. XD

It's a-him, Mark-io!

For all long as I can remember, I always want to be a plumber - Luigi lol

"I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"- Dennis Hopper

That would be awesome if they made Bob Hoskins version of Mario be some sort of deity in the Super Mario Cinematic Universe's Mushroom Kingdom.😅 R.I.P. Bob Hoskins

I do understand your criticisms about The Super Mario Bros. Movie. I loved it, but the debate around voice acting is pretty valid. And yes, it's not a groundbreaking movie or anything (story-wise, at least), but it felt incredible to see the world of Mario on the bug screen.

I didn't love the new Mario flick but I thought Keegan key was great. I would have never guessed it was him. I didn't think anyone did a bad job with voice acting but the story itself was just kinda boring. The animation was great though.

Super Mario Bros (1993): why can’t my movie has what you have? The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023): simple, Jack black/bowser singing “Peaches”

I felt that closing skit in my soul 🤣😂😅😭

4:15 Kevin Conroy got me crying rn

RIP Voice Actors. Glad I grew up on cartoons pre-1980s, which had great voice actors.